As company CEO and former professional driver Enrico Bertaggia discussed with me, their top 2 priorities for guests are safety and customer satisfaction.

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You can blast around the new track behind the wheel, or opt to ride with a professional driver if driving a car that costs more than the average American house makes you nervous.

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Mr Ash, a retired professional train driver with more than 50 years' experience, said it was possible he did not lock a reversing lever into place, which could have allowed the locomotive to slip between forward and reverse.

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Thanks to the advent of technology, Heitkotter was able to use GT5 to literally help become a professional race car driver.

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Heitkotter beat out over 53, 000 competitors who registered for GT Academy and is now a Nissan-sponsored professional race car driver and part of a four-person team that will race the 24-hour race in Dubai in January 2012.

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The price of girls' exam success was also being paid in terms of stress and anxiety, said Kay Driver, general secretary of the Professional Association of Teachers.

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Not only is one of the candidates a former bartender, boxer, prison guard, professional gambler, car-factory worker and snowplough driver.

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At the least, driver training in the U.S. could benefit from adopting the European practice of using professional instructors rather than the ad hoc supervision currently afforded by moonlighting high school teachers.

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